Peach trees that produce a marketable...

-- PEACHY IDEAS.

November 23, 1987|By Jerry Jackson of the Sentinel staff

-- PEACHY IDEAS. Peach trees that produce a marketable crop a year earlier than normal have been developed through the use of tissue-culture techniques, a U.S. Agriculture Department researcher reported at the recent annual meeting for the American Society for Horticultural Science. The meeting took place at the Hyatt Orlando near Kissimmee. Tissue-culture techniques involve taking tiny parts of plants and growing them in nutrient-filled jars, generating whole plants with desirable traits. The lab-grown peach trees someday could increase cash flow for farmers by allowing them to harvest crops two years after planting instead of three, researcher Freddi Hammerschlag said.